Going viral: virus-based biological control agents for plant protection

J Wagemans, D Holtappels, E Vainio… - Annual review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The most economically important biotic stresses in crop production are caused by fungi,
oomycetes, insects, viruses, and bacteria. Often chemical control is still the most commonly …

The Bunyavirales: The plant-infecting counterparts

R Kormelink, J Verchot, X Tao, C Desbiez - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
Negative-strand (-) RNA viruses (NSVs) comprise a large and diverse group of viruses that
are generally divided in those with non-segmented and those with segmented genomes …

Virion-associated nucleic acid-based metagenomics: a decade of advances in molecular characterization of plant viruses

O Moubset, S François, F Maclot, E Palanga… - …, 2022 - Am Phytopath Society
Over the last decade, viral metagenomic studies have resulted in the discovery of thousands
of previously unknown viruses. These studies are likely to play a pivotal role in obtaining an …

Soybean thrips (Thysanoptera: Thripidae) harbor highly diverse populations of arthropod, fungal and plant viruses

T Thekke-Veetil, D Lagos-Kutz, NK McCoppin… - Viruses, 2020 - mdpi.com
Soybean thrips (Neohydatothrips variabilis) are one of the most efficient vectors of soybean
vein necrosis virus, which can cause severe necrotic symptoms in sensitive soybean plants …

Resolving deep evolutionary relationships within the RNA virus phylum Lenarviricota

S Sadiq, YM Chen, YZ Zhang, EC Holmes - Virus Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The RNA virus phylum Lenarviricota is composed of the fungi-associated families
Narnaviridae and Mitoviridae, the RNA bacteriophage Leviviridae, and the plant and fungi …

Molecular biology and structure of a novel penaeid shrimp densovirus elucidate convergent parvoviral host capsid evolution

JJ Pénzes, HT Pham, P Chipman… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The giant tiger prawn (Penaeus monodon) is a decapod crustacean widely reared for
human consumption. Currently, viruses of two distinct lineages of parvoviruses (PVs, family …

A genome-wide screening for RNAi pathway proteins in Acari

BT Nganso, N Sela, V Soroker - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background RNA interference (RNAi) is a highly conserved, sequence-specific gene
silencing mechanism present in Eukaryotes. Three RNAi pathways are known, namely micro …

Endogenous viral element-derived piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are not required for production of ping-pong-dependent piRNAs from Diaphorina citri densovirus

JC Nigg, YW Kuo, BW Falk - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) are a class of small RNAs primarily responsible for silencing
transposons in the animal germ line. The ping-pong cycle, the posttranscriptional silencing …

RNA Viruses Are Prevalent and Active Tenants of the Predatory Mite Phytoseiulus persimilis (Acari: Phytoseiidae)

TS Berman, Y Izraeli, M Lalzar, N Mozes-Daube… - Microbial ecology, 2023 - Springer
Many arthropod species harbor a diverse range of viruses. While much is known about
pathogenic viruses of some economically important insects and arthropods involved in …

A novel Rice curl dwarf-associated picornavirus encodes a 3C serine protease recognizing uncommon EPT/S cleavage sites

T Zhang, C Li, M Cao, D Wang, Q Wang, Y Xie… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Picornaviruses cause diseases in a wide range of vertebrates, invertebrates and plants.
Here, a novel picornavirus was identified by RNA-seq technology from rice plants showing …